Adrenaline junkies

[Jaymes]

I will never in my life understand people that like to get an adrenaline rush. :areyoucra For me it just makes me feel sick and terrible and ready to burst into tears. I guess it varies from situation to situation, but pretty much any time I've gotten one I felt really badly afterwards...

... this thread brought to you by Jenna's car's close encounter with the coke machine! (I don't think I will ever live down pressing the gas instead of the brake. )

 

[Cynic]

I will never in my life understand people that like to get an adrenaline rush. :areyoucra For me it just makes me feel sick and terrible and ready to burst into tears. I guess it varies from situation to situation, but pretty much any time I've gotten one I felt really badly afterwards...

... this thread brought to you by Jenna's car's close encounter with the coke machine! (I don't think I will ever live down pressing the gas instead of the brake. )

Try fishtailing across three lanes of traffic! Whew!

 

[Jaymes]

No thanks An encounter with the coke machine at about 3 miles an hour was plenty for me...

 

[Scuba Pete]

Adrenaline rush? Try taking three students to 130' and watching each of them narc out in different ways.

 

[kreeden]

Personally , I have never felt more alive then after I had came close to dying ... but I'm kinda strange . I guess it kinda follows the logic that it isn't my time , so party on ?

 

[Cynic]

No thanks An encounter with the coke machine at about 3 miles an hour was plenty for me...

No really, It was really fun! (back in high school) Some girls beeped at me so I decided to show off in the T-bird with the 210 HP, 4.6 L V8 SOH engine. (it's a heavy car). Ya, I was pretty embarrassed afterwards...

Look at the bright side, you woulda gotten free cokes! Yay.

 

[EnhancedSpirit]

I'M GOING TO DISNEY TOMORROW WITH NOOOO KIDS

But I feel the same way you do, Jensa, there are only a few rides that I can handle. Going around in a circle really makes me sick, but going up and down isn't so bad. Luckily, I have family that can get us in to Disney for free, and they are hopper passes, we start at Epcot, ride the best rides, then hop on the monorail to MGM, ride the Tower of Terror a couple of times, and go the the world beer place, and Honey I shrunk the Kids, then back on the monorail, to the Magic Kingdom, where we hit splash Mt., space Mt, well, actually, we do most of Magic Kingdom. But even though I don't ride a lot of rides, I don't pay to get in, so I don't think it's a waste.

My three year old daughter is a HUGE adrenaline junkie. We have a single person hamock chair on our front porch and Maya will spin herself for hours if I let her. I had a Johnny Jumper for her when she was a little baby, and she would rarely jump, she would plant one toe on the ground and use her other foot to spin herself as fast as a nine month old could spin. She loves going way high in the swings at the park. My son is not so much of an adrenaline junkie, but my daughter, she loves the rush.

 

[goodjewishboy]

I kinda had my fill of adrenaline bout a year and a half ago when I went skiing. I hit a long stretch of ice and abruptly stopped, well my skiis did, in a patch of mud. I went flying in the air superman style and landed on my face. My face eventually healed, I looked like Two-Face from Batman, but I managed to break my wrist in the fall as well. Three months in a cast, major surgery, and seven more months in a cast I finally have a working wrist again.

The moral of the story?
Dont go skiing in Indiana.

 

[Watcher]

Ohhh......i am the BIGGEST adraneline junkie!!!!!!!!!:jiggy::bounce:jam:
I LOVE to get that adrenaline flowing through my body. And nothing does it like scuba diving, sky diving, and ocasonally four-wheeling and skiing. I like knowing that the Reaper is standing close behind me.

Netdoc...narced? oh boyyyyyyyyy...don't remind me....spiegal grove...130 feet of water above my head...20 foot vis and 6 foot waves. NOT a good combination.....

 

[robtex]

I kickboxed when I was 18-23ish and use to get an adrenaline rush from that. I don't know how to explain it other than it is like being "high" and if feels nice. I found I am really afraid of heights and used that to get the adrenline dump. I don't really do that anymore but at the time when I was young I guess I was using my body to get high.

 

[Snowbear]

Hmmm.... the times I have been closest to dying did not involve any adrenaline rush at all.

But I don't mind adrenaline rushes... must come from being a firefighter for so long ~ I don't even notice them most of the time, until I realize later that I can't get back to sleep

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Ohhh......i am the BIGGEST adraneline junkie!!!!!!!!!:jiggy:

:jam:

I CHALLENGE THAT!!!!!!
I bungee jumped on a whim while I was in Tennesee last month. I WILL sky dive one of these days. Not a short fall, Im talking about the long 10 minute free falls. I race dirt bikes on gravel roads with no pading going over 60 mph. I even joust on dirt bikes. I have jumped off of 20 foot ladders before, just because I thought it would be fun, and I knew the crowd would enjoy it. And thats just the top of the list of my adrenaline pumping achievments.

I like knowing that the Reaper is standing close behind me.

I like knowing the Reaper is reaching out with his cold hand and showing his nasty grin at me.

 

[Snowbear]

10 minute free fall??? You have to be in the range of hypoxic atmospheres for that.... do they make bungie cords that long?? Must be a hechuva bounce when you hit the end

My first skydive was an adrenaline rush.... the rest were just serious fun

 

[EnhancedSpirit]

I went to Disney World today. And, Disney World kicked my b***.

We started off at Epcot. Rode the test track, then hopped on a ferry to MGM. There was no waits on the rides, there was a little bit of a line, but the lines never stopped moving, so we were on each ride within 10 min. We rode tower of terror two times in a row. And it turned my stomache upside down. But we had one more ride before we left for the Magic Kingdom. So off to the Aerosmith, Rockin' Roller Coaster. Again, there is no wait, no time for my stomach to settle. We get shoulder locked into a roller coaster that looks like a stretch limo, and screech off into the darkness.

The ride is a lot like space mountain for any one who has been, a roller coaster inside, so it's really dark, except for flashing lights here and special effects and such. We flipped upside down and all my change fell out of my pocket, then I started throwing up. I counld not move my shoulders, could not lean over the side of the car. I could not do anything but sit there and continue to puke on myself, over and over until the ride stopped.

The guy gave me a voucher to get a free shirt and shorts from any of the gift shops. I had worn cargo shorts, and my pockets were full of stuff, I emptied my pockets and handed it to my boyfriend, I then made it to the nearest trash can, where I proceeded strip my puke covered clothes, and threw them away. Luckily, I wore my bathing suit, so I at least had that going for me. But here I was almost buck naked (2 piece bathing suit with tennis shoes), shopping for clothes at Disney World.

It should have been embarrassing, but I really wasn't, I was mildly irritated. I have never, ever thrown up on myself. Even in my wildest party days, I have been more drunk than any person should be, I still made it to a trash can, or a toilet. Never, ever, have I puked on myself, until today. But the clothes I got from the gift shop would have cost me $25 for the shirt and $35 for the shorts. So I got that, plus, like I said, we didn't have to pay to get in, we were 3 and went to 3 parks, at $60 a piece, that would have cost over $500. So, despite, puking on myself, it was a great day.

We rode to mono rail over to the Magic Kingdom. I didn't ride anymore, but the two who went with me went on a few more rides. They are both from Maine, and had never been to Disney, so I let them have their fun, while I settled my stomach (went to the car for some herbal therapy).

Adrenaline is not my friend, I cannot handle it, but in small doses.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

10 minute free fall??? You have to be in the range of hypoxic atmospheres for that

Sky diving, not bungee jumping. A bungee jump that long will tear your spine to pieces. And maybe not 10 minutes exactly, but I want to shoot for at least 7 or 8. I want to be in the air long enough to really enjoy it. Not jump, then pull your cord before the sane part of your brain figures out what you have done. I want my insane half to be going full throttle, and my sane half going OMG WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO!?!?!?!?!

 

[Snowbear]

...And maybe not 10 minutes exactly, but I want to shoot for at least 7 or 8. I want to be in the air long enough to really enjoy it.

You might want to do the math on that... there are, of course, things you can do to slow down your "freefall," but you still have to be awfully high up there to spend 7-8 minutes in falling.... believe it or not, a one minute free fall is a loooooonnnnnnnggggggg time

 

[ch'ang]

I am absoltuly in love ina nything that gets my heart pumping (going to Cedar Point soon because the roller coasters around me i.e. hershey are not nearly big enough) But it my experiance has been limited to roller coasters, rope swings, snowboarding and jumping off cliffs. I hope to one day sky dive, BASE jump, bungee jump you know all that good stuff but sadly I have neither the economic nor the transportation means to do any of theses (since I'm still only 15 I can't even get my permit yet!) But still I have high hopes

 

[Shadow Wolf]

believe it or not, a one minute free fall is a loooooonnnnnnnggggggg time

One minute is just not long enough. I want to be high above the clouds, then go through them, to find a great view of the land around me when I get through the clouds. I get pumped up just thinking about it.:jam:

 

[Snowbear]

Wow!! An encounter like this one would be the adrenaline rush of a lifetime for me!!

Over 4th of July weekend, I took my Whaler to tag along with my sister, BIL another couple (They all own a Bayliner together) and one other gal for 5 days out in Prince William Sound. I, of course, brought my dive gear and spear gun

Anyhow, while my sis and the other gal went Kayaking, the rest of us took the Whaler to a likely looking combination dive/halibut fishing site. I dove a really awesome sea wall (no spear gun, just a camera) while they fished and watched my bubbles. I had told them I would be gone an hour and at the 60 minute mark my head popped out of the water. They were all excited and proceeded to tell me about how they were about 100' off the wall and 2 Orcas swam and spy-hopped between them and the wall..... much closer to the wall than the boat.... closer to my bubbles than the boat....

The underwater visibility was only about 20' and I actually spent very little time looking away from the rock wall and the abundance of creatures living on it, so even if the Orcas came to check me out, I didn't see them. I am certain they knew I was there and I'm certain they saw me!! I still think how absolutely awesome it would have been to have seen them, but holy cow that would have been an adrenaline rush to be that close (remember, visibility was only 20', so they would have had to be at least that close for me to have seen them!!) and face to face with such large predators!! Wowowowowow!!!

For anyone who's interested, you can click here to see a small sample of the underwater wonders that keep me submerged as much as possible...

 

[michel]

I will never in my life understand people that like to get an adrenaline rush. :areyoucra For me it just makes me feel sick and terrible and ready to burst into tears. I guess it varies from situation to situation, but pretty much any time I've gotten one I felt really badly afterwards...

... this thread brought to you by Jenna's car's close encounter with the coke machine! (I don't think I will ever live down pressing the gas instead of the brake. )

We have all been 'there' Jensa, and I am guilty of having done silly things when young - some intentionally, which is far worse than what you did; that was just sheer bad luck.

I am not an adrnaline junkie; I hate the 'rushes'; I have also come to understand that adrenaline rushes come out of anxiety and panic, and my body's reaction to the rush is not something I enjoy! - like you, I feel sick, and see nothing to enjoy about adrenaline.